Player properties not setting

Hi,

I did make the changes you mentioned in Peer.cpp. After doing so I tried a clean and build on my project. It does not seem to work that way. I think there is a different way to build the photon library!!

Can you please guide me on doing so?? As the changes that I have made are not reflecting when I run my project.

Thank you again.

Hi,

I meant that I tried clean and build with the game project but that did not work. What I wanted to ask is how should I build photon?

I use Eclipse for development but I assume that to rebuild photon, I will have to use Visual Studios. Please let me know if I am correct??

If so, please also guide me with the steps to follow as I am not familiar with VS...


Thanks a ton for all your help.

Hi,

I followed your instruction on building the Loadbalancing project to get the .a files. But the issue that I face now is a little away from photon.

When I try and build the files using Visual Studios and vsandroid, I get an error in a particular file of VS. It is because this particular file is a 32bit file and I run 64bit OS on my system. I tried various combinations like downgrading from VS2012 to VS2010. I also tried it on a 32bit system, but seems that due to my inexperience with VS, I fail to get the builds out.

My request to you would be that if you can PLEASE make those changes in peer.cpp and build the .a files for me. My game is stuck till I get this particular feature working correctly and thus all our deadlines will get delayed.

Hope you can help me with this. Also are there any probabilities of another Photon update sometime soon??

Thanks a ton.

Hi,

Thank you for all your help Kaiserludi!! But it seems that nothing is working out for me. I tried using the package that you shared, but it still does not give any positive results. I still get the playerproperties in the callback as an empty hashtable.

Can you please help on how exactly should I set the properties of player. The code that I am using is:

mLoadbalancingCLient.getLocalPlayer().addCustomProperties(hashtable);

I call this as soon as I create the client and then I need to change particular property values..

Also is it possible for you to change the type of ACTRNR in Peer.cpp and then send me the built package??

Thanks again..

HI,
I unable to get the issue resolved yet, even after all the help that you provided. I think there is something very basic that I might be doing wrong, unknowingly. So here is what I am doing:
The constructor of my Listener class looks like this:

[code2=cpp]NetworkLogic::NetworkLogic(const char* appVersion)
#ifdef _EG_MS_COMPILER
#pragma warning(push)
#pragma warning(disable:4355)
#endif
: mLoadBalancingClient(*this, "appId", appVersion, clientname),
mLastInput(INPUT_NON)
#ifdef _EG_MS_COMPILER
# pragma warning(pop)
#endif
{ playerPropertiesHash.put("property1", "4");
playerPropertiesHash.put("property2", "4");
playerPropertiesHash.put("property3", "456");
playerPropertiesHash.put("property4", "4");
mLoadBalancingClient.getLocalPlayer().addCustomProperties(playerPropertiesHash);
}[/code2]

In my game, I need to change property3 when the player connects to a room.
Now, when a player connects to a room or creates the room, we get the call back in joinRoomReturn, joinRandomRoomReturn and createRoomReturn. In my case lets say that my player creates the room. So the callback is:

[code2=cpp]void NetworkLogic::createRoomReturn(int localPlayerNr, const ExitGames::Common::Hashtable& roomProperties, const ExitGames::Common::Hashtable& playerProperties, int errorCode, const ExitGames::Common::JString& errorString)
{
if(errorCode)
{
gameState = STATE_CONNECTED;
return;
}

playerPropertiesHash.put("property3","50");
mLoadBalancingClient.getLocalPlayer().addCustomProperties(playerPropertiesHash);
gameState = STATE_JOINED;
}[/code2]

After the above mentioned callbacks, we get another common callback joinRoomEventAction. My expectations are that I should get the updated property3 when the joinRoomEventAction is called. So I try to retrieve it like this:

[code2=cpp]void NetworkLogic::joinRoomEventAction(int playerNr, const ExitGames::Common::JVector<int>& playernrs, const ExitGames::LoadBalancing::Player& player)
{
CCLog("Players in room %s", player.getCustomProperties().toString().UTF8Representation().cstr());
gameState = STATE_PLAYING;
}[/code2]

But in the CCLog, I get property3 as 456 instead of 50.
IMP: When I tried the same flow with the IOS version of Photon, I get property3 as 50 in the logs.
Is it that, I am doing it the wrong way, or is it really an issue with Photon.
Thank you for all the help :-)

Hi,

As for your queries on my testing scenarios, the problem occurs when I try 2 Androids, but works fine with 2 IOSs. I havent tried mixing the two platforms. For Androids, I create a room with Android1 and in its joinRoomReturn, I call addCustomProperties() to set the value of a particular property. Then I try to read the value of the property in joinRoomEventAction(), where it still gives the old value.

I then connect Android2 and join the room created by Androi1. Now on this device also I change the property in joinRoomReturn(). Here in joinRoomEventAction(), I get the new value of the property of Android1. But Android2 is still the old value.

On the other hand, in Android1, I get the old values for properties of both devices. Also I use a for loop to getPlayers() from currently joined room and for each player I do player.getCustomProperties().

I am trying to get a work around because, I think it is not giving me correct values from within the callbacks. I want to try and access the values when updating my UI. The new package you shared has the Hastable in customEventAction to Object. Due to this, I get crashes when calling opRaiseEvent and customEventAction callback. I was using Hashtables earlier.

I am not being able to cast between Hastable and Object. Can you please help me with the same.

Thanks a lot..